Monday, January 9, 2023

Sodium Fire: Why The Struggle for African Self Determination is Obsolete

                                                             Photo Sodium Fire of 2016 Asia


"A sodium fire is a commercial fire of the liquid metal sodium. It can be sparked by the presence of air and cannot be quenched by water, which acts to fuel additional combustion. Even, the fire extinguisher will intensify the fire. The only solution to such a catastrophic tragedy is dry sand. Politically, socially, economically, societally, militarily, and intellectually, the African is in a sodium fire. The only solution is dry sand."


The contemporary age is full of wonder and awe. To be born in such an age is a gift, or a intelligently designed, curse, the product of thousands of years of human technological socio-evolution. Today, is the moment where the once impossible, is possible. Technology has even outpaced social governance like democracy, which is entirely insufficient to keep pace with emerging advances in commercial scientific organization. If threaten, a society would flatten for technological progress, even Nature, the creator, holder, teacher, and preserver of technology. Ironically, given the inability of any intelligent being or species, to holistically comprehend the infinite possibilities & infinite mathematical realities, Nature is often the first victim of progress. It is the thin line between knowledge and evil. For the thin line, in reference to the African Man, and his struggle for self determination, the time for peaceful compromise is over. Marginalized groups can never reclaim the ground lost by thousands of years of their Ancestral cultural socio-evolution, or push forward constructive agendas to cause the technological retreat of the post modern society. A successful marginalized group is rare and must affix themselves with aspects of the technological age, which ensures their indispensibility. Why?


The apparatus of technology has created global monolithic gigantrian systems of economies, which no small group has the power to oppose. All the simple substances of the modern and post modern society are the products of giant systems, for example coffee, sugar, tea, gold, aluminium, glass, Big Oil or even, electricity. All these systems include years of scientific processes, research, and physical organization on a massive scale using land resources in Asia, Africa or Australia, transportation vessels, refineries & factories in highly industrialized locations, distribution channels, legal structures in corporations, illegible courthouses, complex currency systems in a multi-component, highly complex globally organized apparatus monitored & protected by military units under the command of the owners of the regimes, their families, and their civilization hegemonies. Complex products like televisions, computers, and cellphones are built on the simple industries and are evolutions of decades to centuries of thought. The Architects, Physicians, and Engineers of today, with their foundations in classical studies and manufactured thought, are the most intelligent "Jack of All Trades," or Beings, in the history of mankind. The civilization that rests on top of this behemoth structure will rule the Earth.


The African movement for self determination is obsolete because it fails to weigh the sheer weight of technological advances, which increasingly depend on their labor, intelligence, ancestral lands, and its physical resources. The contemporary age is composed of behemoth systems of technology, represented by corporations and protected by laws, all of which are designed to provide simple and complex products consumed by every culture in the world. The self determination of the African, at this junction in the 21st Century, would jeopardize and even halt the entire world's technological advances, in every system, industry, and economy. Why else has the numerous attempts at African liberation in the Americas, the continent of Africa, and all over the world, not been ultimately successful? African American Slave rebellions like those of Nat Turner in 1830s Virginia, did not understand that their struggle was not just against the ordinary White American Enslaver and the plantation system, but against the Behemoth Tobacco Industry, Rice Industry, Coffee, Industry, Tea Industry, Sugar Industry, Cotton Industry, Christianity, and all the Capitalist components of the American Empire, which had components locally and abroad making plantations, haciendas, and encomiendas, possible. Haiti's Toussaint Louverture and Jean Jacques Dessalines were closer to the solution for African liberation in 1804, by challenging the owners of the entire system, the French Empire, and they succeeded in overthrowing and releasing the shackles of political, social, and intellectual enslavement. Haiti, even assisted their neighbors to the South on overthrowing the owners of the Spanish Empire in South America. Together these Empires of Europe, Spain, England, France, and the Netherlands were members of the European civilization and it is this civilization, that punished the Haitian revolutionaries with their last component of power in the physical corporation apparatus of ships, goods & products, distribution lines, laws, treaties & currency, which ultimately crushed the success of the liberation of Haiti. One needs friends and money to sustain a civilization and the liberation of the African continent, one century later in the 1960s, will also suffer from the same strategy. No one group, nation, or people can defeat all the component features of a Civilization. And because the Africans will not assemble themselves together, by physical resources, shipping systems, currencies and laws in civilization, as in times past, when the continent was not known as Africa, a province of Rome, but Khemet (Black land), Axum, or Abyssiania, under the 12 tribes, using all the component features of their intelligent industries, lands, resources, currencies, laws, and people for the aim of defense and Khemetian Civilization, their individual struggles is obsolete. I compare the current global situation of the African to a sodium fire because mere compromise, the solution water of shaking hands and legal treaties is long past. We are in an age where technology depends on our ignorance and so, water, air, and special means cannot quench the fire which has encompassed around us. 


The European Civilization is not willing to risk the natural evolution of their Capitalist culture, nor is the Asian Civilization willing to curb their natural Social program, for the Khemetian to catch up with the times. And even if, the more humane Asian culture, were willing, the European Apparatus has built their entire wealth structure on the labor, intelligence, and now, land resources of Africa. Such a generous gesture of "humanity," would cause their migration to a secondary or tertiary civilization. And since, when the Khemetian Civilization was at the head of the Earth, it neither ceased to invade Europe and Asia, except for the exchange of knowledge and mathematics, the full ferocity and righteous violence of superiority requires all the components of the full force for the acknowledgement and title of Civilization. Thus, the only way forward for the self determination for Africans (Khemetians), is direct competition and the mathematics of alternative technological progress, alternative education, alternative currency, economies , and bankings, alternative medicine, alternative diet, etcetera. The African or Khemetian, must outflank the European, just as the European outflanked the African during the Crusades. Excuse me, the historical rebranding is the European Age of Exploration. The African must minimize liberty from individual freedom to a gradual familial compromise and a negotiable tribal halt, such as the Asian Civilization successfully did, during the final decades of the 20th Century. 


Why fight progress when either by leadership or enslavement, we will be brought to the same zenith of human perfection in technological advances. So, we must create new alternative behemoth systems and industries for human technology and solve our socioeconomic tragedy by commanding our families to move forward together, forbid individualism & sexism strategies which destroy family, and jettison any detrimental system or industry set on blocking our progress into the technological future. I believe in Afrofuturism, and I believe that the 22nd Century is the beginning of a millennium of African Civilization, but it is a future that aligns us with mathematics and nature, and leaves behind all of the ignorance, demonic vices, & trauma of the Arab & European Slave trade, Holy Wars, and it is a era where we are not as a second caste, or servant of another race of Men. The only solution to a sodium fire is dry sand and fixed structures of Earth. The only solution is Nature. Our own human nature is our only solution.

Sunday, January 8, 2023

January Movie of the Month: Rosewood (1997)

 

Rosewood directed by John Singleton; Warner Bros 1997


This January 2023 marks the 100th Centennial of The Rosewood Massacre. In memorial of the next two week's events sponsored by The University of Florida and The Southern Poverty Law Center. As a Gainesville, Florida native, this event is historical for my community. Please show your support for our memorial.



Rosewood Survivor Interviews

Director John Singleton Interview 

Voices of Civil Rights 


The Summers of 1917-1923 in the United States, marked a very turbulent time in racial relations. African Americans were seeking permanant settlements across the country and this was a direct challenge to the White American Status quo, where land ownership remained under White control and labor was the only alternative for African descendants. From race riots in Chicago, St. Louis, Houston, New York City, to massacres in Greenwood, Ocoee, and Rosewood, violence and lynchings became the American experience for African Americans across the country. Lynching became an American passtime, especially on July 4th, where White Communities across the South & North would gather together for a lynching to celebrate American Independence Day. The American Horror story of being Black in America, effectively, creating two Americas, one for the Whites, and another filled with fear for the Black Africans. Thus, Black Floridians must not forget the long history of this struggle for land ownership in this state, which goes back prior to the massacres of the 1920s, but to the Black cities of Angola, Fort Mose, Minatti, Pilaklikaha, and Tobasa. The struggle for Black African self determination in Florida has been fought for a long time. However, in this article, we will remain in commemoration of those who lost their lives 100 years ago, across the state of Florida.

The Ocoee Massacre

Outside of Florida: St Louis Massacre, Greenwood Massacre

St. Louis Massacre

Greenwood Massacre


Sources:
1. Rosewood; Warner Bros Entertainment 1997
2. 100th Commemoration Celebration; Univ. of Florida, Southern Poverty Law Center, Holland & Knight, City of Gainesville, Florida: January 8-14, 2023
3.60 Minutes- Rosewood Survivor Interview & Greenwood Massacre
4. Director John Singleton Interview on Rosewood; Television Academy Foundation 2017
5. Voices of Civil Rights: Rosewood
6. Ocoee Massacre; Eyewitness News 9 2011
7. The Purge: St. Louis Massacre; Hezakya News (distributor)
8. Six Black Free Towns; Jaxsons & WJCT 2023 



Friday, December 23, 2022

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Monday, October 31, 2022

The American Mastodon Publication celebrates Allhallowtide with the Release of The Legends of King Odum

 

                                                           Book Cover Designed by Rachel Buckley

In honor of the Saints, Holy Martyrs, and our Dearly Departed during Allhallowstide, Oct. 31st- Nov. 2nd, The American Mastodon Publication would like to celebrate with the release of two great works; The Legends of King Odum and The African Diaspora Census Report of 2022-2023. This is a time to remember our dearly departed and the lessons of life they left behind to enrich our time among the living. We lift their names in our prayers, visit their resting places, and plant flowers/give gifts in their honor.

The Legends of King Odum 

       Set during the reign of the Benin Empire, Akaso, the primary literature from The Legends of King Odum, is the story told from the natives a century before Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and after, Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. King Odum, is an actual figure from the late 1700s. As a young prince in the Niger Delta, during the European exploration of the Guinea coast, Odum sets out on a journey to find an Ingiminji (Mermaid), a local cult figure, only to discover she has been seized by a mutinous group aboard an infamous vessel of the East India Company, The Hartwell (1787). The challenges of Prieta, the mermaid, lead to a grand alliance within the Empire.

          To summon the reader to better understand the culture of this novel, “Two Gods,” allows the two greatest ideas of the East and West to coalesce and ascertain the better concept. Through the guise of this cult, we discover two tales, which helped to shape the imagination and moral values of Prince Odum in, “Abayomi,” and “The Merchant’s Children.”

           Finally, in an act of war against Elem Kalabari, a region responsible for the sale of over 4 million enslaved persons out of Guinea, Odum is forced to relinquish his throne, in order to save his own kingdom from enslavement by neighboring tribes. King Odum, is a fallen medieval figure of precolonial West Africa researched by GI Jones, Trading States of The Oil Rivers (1963) & Kenneth Dike’s Trade and Politics in the Niger Delta (1956). The cross-cultural connections are widespread and abundant, bringing readers into the heart of Guinea and the Benin Empire, as well as the renown Frigates of the British East India Company. This short historical fiction creates written art out of history and opens an entire world for many to view with their spectacles, or open eyes, the wonders of the Dark Continent.

The African Diaspora Census Report of 2022-2023

The American Mastodon Publication is proud to announce The Afro American Quadrennial Census Report of 2022. Since 2013, the AMP has published a four year study on the population of Africans in the Diaspora. This year, in addition to Africans or Blacks in North, Central, and South America, we will include the African populations of Europe. Our last Census Publication, The African Census of 2020-2021 by Cowan Amaye-Obu reported that the worldwide African population was over 1,425,983,327 people as of July 2021 (African Census AMP 2021), and in comparing it to our Black Census Report of 2016 (Devil in the Details AMP 2016), AMP reported the African population had boomed over 400,000,000 people from the year 2016 to 2020. The most significant fact in our previous report was that Africans are the second largest population of people on Earth as of 2020. This fact was overshadowed by the SARS-COVID 19 Pandemic, but the effect of the virus was not as severe on the continent of Africa, as in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Due to the organization of Pan-African nations and the coordination of epidemic response protocols, experience, and performance, African nations were able to avoid large scale preventable deaths and weather the controversial introduction of COVID 19 into their nations with meticulous control of their borders, immigration, and consideration of the facts over Western propaganda & financial influence, whether for advice, treatments, vaccines, or lack of cooperation due to mistrust. For this reason, the African continent performed better than every continent save Australia, which was also able to minimize the effect of SARS-COVID 19 among its population. However, the Afro America or Africans in Diaspora populations in the Americas did not fair as well. Afro American populations in the Americas are subject to all manner of treatment from marginalization to the continued racial caste enslavement by their 21st Century Post Colonial European governments in rule of the nations of the Americas. Thus, health, unemployment, poverty, life expectancy, GDP per capita, marriage, and education remain vital statistics for African American Census Reports for Africans in Diaspora. The African Diaspora Census Report of 2022 will compare the results from the previous Report of 2017-2018. We hope to disclose some vital information and present our findings for review. We appreciate your donations to aid in the publication and with God's providence, will see you during Allhallowstide, Oct. 31, 2022. Thank you!

Friday, October 21, 2022

The African Diaspora Census 2022-2023: Sojourning in the Americas

                                     

                                                    Photo Courtesy of Carnivale NY Times 2022

Ladies & Gentlemen,

The American Mastodon Publication is proud to announce The Afro American Quadrennial Census Report of 2022. Since 2013, the AMP has published a four year study on the population of Africans in the Diaspora. This year, in addition to Africans or Blacks in North, Central, and South America, we will include the African populations of Europe. Our last Census Publication, The African Census of 2020-2021 by Cowan Amaye-Obu reported that the worldwide African population was over 1,425,983,327 people as of July 2021 (African Census AMP 2021), and in comparing it to our Black Census Report of 2016 (Devil in the Details AMP 2016), AMP reported the African population had boomed over 400,000,000 people from the year 2016 to 2020. The most significant fact in our previous report was that Africans are the second largest population of people on Earth as of 2020. This fact was overshadowed by the SARS-COVID 19 Pandemic, but the effect of the virus was not as severe on the continent of Africa, as in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Due to the organization of Pan-African nations and the coordination of epidemic response protocols, experience, and performance, African nations were able to avoid large scale preventable deaths and weather the controversial introduction of COVID 19 into their nations with meticulous control of their borders, immigration, and consideration of the facts over Western propaganda & financial influence, whether for advice, treatments, vaccines, or lack of cooperation due to mistrust. For this reason, the African continent performed better than every continent save Australia, which was also able to minimize the effect of SARS-COVID 19 among its population. However, the Afro America or Africans in Diaspora populations in the Americas did not fair as well. Afro American populations in the Americas are subject to all manner of treatment from marginalization to the continued racial caste enslavement by their 21st Century Post Colonial European governments in rule of the nations of the Americas. Thus, health, unemployment, poverty, life expectancy, GDP per capita, marriage, and education remain vital statistics for African American Census Reports for Africans in Diaspora. The African Diaspora Census Report of 2022 will compare the results from the previous Report of 2017-2018. We hope to disclose some vital information and present our findings for review. We appreciate your donations to aid in the publication and with God's providence, will see you during Allhallowstide, Oct. 31, 2022. Thank you!

-Master Cowan Amaye-Obu

 

Sources:

Black Census Report 2013 American Mastodon Publications 2013

Devil in the Details 2016 American Mastodon Publications 2016

The African Diaspora Census Report of 2017-2018 AMP 2018

The African Census Report of 2020-2021 AMP 2021

SARS-COVID NIH 2019

The Conversation: The Impact of COVID 19 has been lower in Africa.

BBC World COVID Statistics https://www.bbc.com/news/world-51235105

Monday, September 26, 2022

The Prime Directive

                                           

                                    Comet Photo Courtesy of NASA Scheduled to hit Earth 2029

NASA's crashing a satellite into an asteroid today (9/26/2022), sent me into a shock. In 2014, I wrote a screenplay called, Prime Directive, but made sure to leave the climax & resolution blank to see if the material would be stolen. Sure enough, thank you Google, Hollywood stole it three times on three separate films. Still, Prime Directive, an actual premonition of mine, is a concept like an "alternate universe Black Star Trek in reverse." Check it out and see for yourselves how great this project would've been in an honest America.

The Prime Directive American Mastodon Publication 2014 & 2022

Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Comedian of the Decade 2020-2030: Damon Wayans "The Avant-Garde of Comedy"

                                                      

 

                               

                                      Photo of Damon Wayans Courtesy of Houston Improv

          There is a comedian, whose contribution is so meteoric, he was the headliner of the greatest comedy sketch show in television history, In Living Color (1990-1994). If you were not alive, you missed the show that inspired the generation of comedians we now know and love today. Before Kevin Hart or Dave Chappelle, our previous Comedians of the Decade reigned, Damon Wayans made us laugh from the stomach, by way of the ground. And although, the series, created by Keenan Ivory Wayans solidified the Wayans Family as Comedy Royalty, the show catapulted such acts as Jim Carrey, David Alan Grier, Tommy Davidson, Kelly Coffield Park, Kim Wayans, T'Keyah Crystal Keymah', Jamie Foxx, Anna Marie Johnson, Kim Cole, Rosie Perez, Jennifer Lopez, Shawn and Marlon Wayans. If one is a true connoisseur of comedy, one must digest these facts. No other show, besides Saturday Night Live or Def Comedy Jam, produced such a star quality catalog in such as short time. Still, if you watched In Living Color, Damon Wayans was the Star among Stars. 

 "Never underestimate the power of the Handi-Cap Man!" "So what have we learned children, that Homey don't play that!" "The first time I saw Damon Wayans on television, I cried from laughter."

If you remember Eddie Murphy's Beverly Hills Cop, Robert Townsend's Hollywood Shuffle, and Keenen Ivory Wayans' I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, you discovered the hilarious genius of Damon Wayans. It is important to go back and enjoy the early films. Even as a minor character in 1980s films, the brilliance of Damon often stole the show. This brilliance would lead to a career that blessed the lives of millions with genuine laughter and healing. Our Comedian of the Decade is Damon Wayans, The Avante Guard of Comedy. He is a brilliant star worthy of our accolades. 

Fast forward to 1991, the premiere of, The Last Boy Scout, Damon Wayans appears alongside a young, Bruce Willis in the edgy thriller, marking the rise of his stardom and the paradigm domination of the Wayans Family as the Gate Keepers of American Comedy. Damon Wayans was at the top of the Hollywood Food Chain. It was a perfect storm ushered in by the commercialization of Hip Hop, the popularity of social commentary and Comedy Stand-Up routines, and a new era of tolerance. All of Black America, cheered the debut of Damon Wayans' Hollywood Headlining performance in, Mo' Money, which was a cultural phenomena. The film even added to the local slang with, "Mo' Money, Mo' Money, Mo!;"To describe Damon Wayans as meteoric, is not an understatement. Hollywood had found an unlikely, King of Comedy, versatile enough, to act alongside, Arnold Schwarzeneggar in, The Last Action Hero. All the dreams, disappointments, and hard work, finally paid off. But what was even more exciting, was that the success was not exclusive to Damon, and the wealth spread within the Wayans Family, and to all their 'wisely chosen,' talented friends. Keenan may have had the golden touch, and his genius deserves an award of another category, but Damon was the Gold. And Damon too, could write and spin his own tales of golden strings & webs. Ask the fans, who watched Blankman, and laughed until they cried, and then laughed some more. White America did not understand the funny. However, not only was Blankman, hilariously funny, but it was a risk to his career to teach the American populous the virtues of the common man, life's lessons, and manners. To Black America, the movie was a treasure, but to Hollywood, Damon needed to show them more! His golden performance in Major Payne, was a comedic accomplishment, which went beyond the concept & expectations of Hollywood and finally, everyone bowed down to the acting skills, superior writing, and brilliant showmanship of Damon Wayans. Damon Wayans became a staple to Americans and in turn, a fixture in Hollywood. Throughout the 1990s, the Wayans controlled 'funny,' in America with the precision of Naked Gun. No one can forget how Damon Wayans' star power ushered in the comedic rise of Adam Sandler in the film, Bulletproof (1996). The accolades of a diamond do not need to be mentioned because everyone knows, its a diamond. Still, Hollywood is yet to praise our honoree in grandiose & pomp, as is deserved by his impact on American society and his influence on later generations.

                                            Damon Wayans Photo Courtesy of The Emmys
 

The filmography of Damon Wayans can stand alongside the greatest Comedians of all time.Yet, if you had the opportunity to view during primetime, My Wife & Kids, the television show, one would agree, the comedy genius of Damon & the Wayans Family tree had no equal. The impact of the stardom, parody, and genuine comedy set many celebrities off, but also touched the souls of ordinary Americans, as the Wayans exposed the Emperors being naked. America needed to see that behind the perfect exterior of our famous icons, were regular and often, fallible people. Damon Wayans, as a staple to the American diet, played a hardworking Father, alongside the great actress, Tisha Campbell, to a beautiful Black family and the message was to show that regardless of the issues, the ups and downs, the ebbs & flows of multiple individuals, a family can remain together, united. As a fan, this series was climatic. What else could Damon achieve? Cartoons? Producer & Writing credits? True stars never wane.

Our honoree, The Comedian of the Decade 2020-2030, is the Avant-Garde of Comedy. This award is not just for Damon, but to the host of people in which his success is inextricable bound. Damon Wayons is a star within a great American movement, which happened to take place in comedy at the dawn of the second Millennium, the 21st Century. This movement told the Emperor, that He had no clothes, and this had never been done so eloquently before. One might say, the entire Wayans Clan from Keenan to Jim Carrey to David Alan Grier, to Tommy Davidson, to Jamie Foxx to Kelly, Kim & even, Jennifer Lopez... Handing the torch to Shawn & Marlon Wayans, and consequently, Damon Wayans Jr. Do not doubt, that 'funny,' was once owned by one family. To rename, this Honor, "The Decade of In Living Color," and roll out a train of accolades & honorary titles to our Heroes, would be in-sync with praise of our Honoree. We lift up in appreciation and celebrate, The Comedian of the Decade, Damon Wayans.

 

Written by Cowan Amaye-Obu & Uriel Wise of The American Mastodon Publication 2022

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